JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival is happy to announce the participants from UNF and FSCJ who will read in the Student Showcase on Saturday, November 16th from 10:30 to noon in the Jacksonville Public Library‘s Hicks Auditorium. Come hear fresh new voices!
Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ)
Kayla Bell
Justice Brammiann
Carlos Martin
Shaun McCurdy
Hannah Trull
University of North Florida (UNF)
Kadeem Locke
Christyn Kelly
Carissa Marques
Rebecca Hewett
Seth Gozar
Gracie Wilkinson
Arash Kamier says he spends a lot of time high-fiving his family and pondering the death of his “rescue” chicken.
Somewhere in between hand-slaps and daydreams, there is a Masters in Public Policy and a job in Digital Communications.
He writes semi-persistently as a craftsman might. But mostly as a dreamer might, on a wing and a prayer.
Hear this fresh new voice on Saturday, November 16th at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival.
Sohrab Homi Fracis’s novel, Go Home, was shortlisted for the 2018 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and brought him the South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Distinguished Achievement Award. It was an International Book Award Finalist. Fracis was the first Asian American to win the Iowa Short Fiction Award, for Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America. He was an Artist in Residence at Yaddo and Visiting Writer in Residence at Augsburg College.
We are thrilled he’ll be reading at the JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival on Saturday, November 16th. Check it out here.
JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival is pleased to announce the return of Ebony Payne-English, who will read from her graphic novel at the festival on Saturday, November 16, 2019.
Ebony Payne-English is a lyricist, author, playwright, performance artist, and educator from Jacksonville, FL. Most recently, she is curator of The God MC, the first Hip Hop showcase at the Museum Of Contemporary Art in Duval County. Ebony is the first woman to establish her own chapter of the international poetry organization, Black on Black Rhyme. She is the 2017 Cultural Council Emerging Artist as well as recipient of Spoken Word Gala’s 2017 William Bell Humanitarian Award. Ebony volunteers as an Art Selection Panelist for the City of Jacksonville’s Art In Public Places Committee. She is the Managing Director of The Performers Academy, a founding member of the Southern Fried Poetry Inc. Board of Directors, and an inaugural Teaching Artist at the Harland Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta. Find more about the author at www.ebonypayneenglish.com.